Hungarian Open: Quadri begins campaign as Onaolapo, others exit

After the unceremonious exit of Ojo Onaolapo and three others, Aruna Quadri, will today his quest for honours in the men’s singles of the ITTF World Tour tagged Hungarian Open holding in Budapest.

Onaolapo, Kazeem Makanjuola, Bode Abiodun and Olajide Omotayo were all shown the exit in the preliminary round of the men’s singles at the $70,000prize money championships.

Apart from Olajide Omotayo who recorded an emphatic 4-3 win in his first group match against a Belarusian before losing to a Russian opponent in the group stage to exit the tournament , while the likes of Onaolapo, Abiodun and Makanjuola failed to win any of their two matches in the groups.

Quadri, however, will start his campaign in the main draw as one of the 16 seeded players in the men’s singles. The 2014 ITTF Star Player is expected to battle one of the qualifiers in the main draw of the championship while Egypt’s Omar Assar will also play his first match in the men’s singles as the 15th seeded player of the championship.

Meanwhile, in the quarter-finals of the Under 21 Women’s Singles out of the three German representatives to feature, only Nina Mittelham progressed to the semifinal round in Budapest as she saw off Russian opponent Ekaterina Guseva in straight games (11-5, 11-8, 11-9).

Placed in the lower half of the draw, number three seed Nina Mittelham was rarely troubled in her match against Ekaterina Guseva, and only three games were played out before the German player picked up the win.

Nina Mittelham made a strong start to the tie claiming game one by a six point margin, and despite a better showing from Ekaterina Guseva following the conclusion of the opening end the Russian was unable to pull herself back into the tie with Nina Mittelham taking games two and three to confirm her spot in the semi-finals (11-5, 11-8, 11-9).

Success for Nina Mittelham, but for Germany’s other contestants there was very little to cheer about.